Brodersen received his B.S. in electrical engineering and mathematics from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, in 1966, his M.S. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1968, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from MIT in 1972.[2] After working with Texas Instruments, he joined the faculty of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at Berkeley in 1976, where his research focused on low-power design and wireless communications, including ultra-wideband radio systems, multiple-carrier multiple-antenna algorithms, microwave CMOS radio design, and computer-aided design tools.[2] He retired in 2006 as professor emeritus.[2]
Brodersen was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1988 for pioneering contributions to very-large-scale integrated circuit design and to speech-processing technology. He was also an IEEE Fellow.[3]
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